Detect, read and write Barcodes in Silverlight

Released: Jul 11, 2011

Updates in this release

Updates in V17.5

  • Detect, read and write Barcodes in Silverlight and Windows Phone
  • New high-level Barcode design for .NET simplifies adding support for all barcode types in your application without any special knowledge of barcode symbologies
  • Dramatically increased barcode recognition speed by up to 9X
  • Automated cleanup for barcodes
  • PDF updates and improvements
    • PDF runtime now requires only a single DLL for distribution
    • Merge multiple PDF or Postscript files into a single PDF document
    • Split a PDF into multiple documents
    • Extract text with properties such as bounding rectangle, font information and color
    • Extract hyperlinks, bookmarks and internal links
    • Load and save PDF metadata such as Title, Author, Subject, Keywords and Producer
    • New PDF Document Editor with extended support for adding, replacing, and deleting pages in any PDF file
    • Enhanced PDF encryption support
    • Convert Postscript files to PDF with full control over distiller, encryption and compatibility settings
    • Convert existing PDF files to linearized PDFs(optimized for web viewing)
    • Convert existing PDF files to PDF/A-1B
    • Save fully customized UNICODE Bookmarks in PDF files
    • Added support for multi-threaded PDF load
    • Added support for writing PDF 1.3 and 1.6
    • New PDF Info Extractor gets information about PDF version, image width, height, bit depth, compression and DPI
  • OCR Advantage Engine updates and improvements
    • AutoZone has been improved to provide fewer, more accurate zones, improving OCR results
    • Dramatically accelerated AutoZone detection, improving overall performance for OCR
    • Faster Advanced Table Detection, providing better performance when dealing with documents containing tables
    • New image pre-processing features to improve OCR results including fixing broken letters, dithered text, inverted text and more.
    • Now supports the following languages: Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese
    • Added support for built-in Spellcheckingincluding NHunspell and Microsoft's System.Windows.Controls.SpellCheck engines
  • Enhancements to Existing File Formats
    • Support for loading Office 2007 formats: DOCX, XLSX and PPTX
    • Optimized load performance for DOC format
    • Added ability to load Office formats from memory
    • Added support for JBIG2 with non-sequential headers (i.e. random access)
    • Support for loading refinement segments in JBIG2 format
  • Increased the speed of the Line Remove image processing function
  • New ImageColorType function for detecting whether the image is mostly black and white, grayscale or color.
  • Virtual Printer now supports network printing